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The hit movie "The King's Speech" that chronicles the relationship between Britain's wartime monarch, King George V1, and his speech therapist, Lionel Logue, has put stuttering squarely in the spotlight. A speech disorder in which the sufferer has problems enunciating words on command, stuttering afflicts about 65 million people worldwide, 3 million in the United States. At Old Dominion University's department of communication disorders in Norfolk, assistant professor and researcher Corrin Richels welcomed the film and the publicity it created. To generate discussion about treatment options, she took her graduate students in fluency disorders to see the movie....

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The hit movie "The King's Speech" that chronicles the relationship between Britain's wartime monarch, King George V1, and his speech therapist, Lionel Logue, has put stuttering squarely in the spotlight. A speech disorder in which the sufferer...

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